Couple of videos

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Couple of videos

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Here are a couple videos from last summer

A pigeon on a grain bin roof.
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And a gopher, (Richardson Ground Squirrel) our local species of praire dog.
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I hope these work, its my first try at this sort of stuff. I'm to this site daily but mostly just lurk and read posts
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Yep, works perfectly, and was exactly the result I expected. Bird = poof! Skippy jumped! :lol:
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It's hard to beat an exploding bird! Unless of course it's something else exploding...
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:eek: That's what I call being shot down when you are trying to get some :player: Gary
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Captqc wrote::eek: That's what I call being shot down when you are trying to get some :player: Gary
BOOOOOO! Bad form Gary :)

The rabbit i shot the other day looked like that bird. :)
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Very Inspirational thanks for sharing
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He sure was ful of himself!!

Well,, up to a point anyhow. :lol:
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haha...I got a kick out of those videos....that just adds fuel to the fire...two more months and I'll be headed out on my first PD hunt.

When out at the club I always hope some poop black bird will land in the range but it hasn't happened yet.
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I was just watching the pigeon video again and it looks like it may have been a two for one shot...
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WrzWaldo wrote:I was just watching the pigeon video again and it looks like it may have been a two for one shot...
I thought that to at first, but wait till the end and look at the left and you can see the other bird flying away.
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Bun, I just call'em as I see'em :shrug: Gary
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BunGhoLeo

Yep I see it.
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Pigeon was 2 for 1 shot

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Yes the pigeon was 2 with one shot, unintentional.

All I seen was feathers in the scope after the shot, but those watching said I had got both. Later we found 3 feet amoung the carnage.

I believe what is misteaken for a whole (live) bird is a large part that exits the stage to the right very rapidly. Ended up on top of the grain truck.

The funniest thing was that it was a very calm evening and the feathers stayed in a cloud about 30' in diameter and slowly floated the 100 yards towards us. It was like heavy snowfall in August.

My cousins from the city thought that it was the greatest thing they have ever seen.
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Post by BunGhoLeo »

A three footed pigeon? That's bad azz! :)

There must have been another bird on the other side of that silo. The one we see on the left left is a whole bird flying away. I was able to pause the video, after five mintues of attempts, and it's clearly visable. And the idoit i am i replayed it before thinking about a screen cap! :/ I really hate flash videos, mpg all the way!

Is it legal there to shoot roosting birds? I remember hearing here in kentucky that only birds in flight are legal, or something to that nature.
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Now I see it!!!

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I had never noticed it before but sure enought there is one fluttering by in the lower left between grain bin roofs. No surprise though our farm had dozens of the filthy things. One gun shot and they all took to flight.

There were about 10 bins in a row some with bin lids closed that they sit on and others with lids open that they fly inside of to eat and crap all over the grain. The filthy birds would crap all over our farm equipment as well, it was corrosive enough to ruin the paint if not washed soon enough.
Is it legal there to shoot roosting birds? I remember hearing here in kentucky that only birds in flight are legal, or something to that nature.
Legalities? Not really sure, always seen as a varmint and treated as such. Like many non-native species they are considered pests and have no limit or season. ( :( I miss the farm) All the farmers and ranchers hate them because they are so messy and damaging. We always thin them out regularly as they are such a nusaince.

They got smart enough to flee when within 50-75 yards to be safe from .22 or shotgun, but when the arrived .204 they had to relearn thier "safe" distance
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